All Quiet On The Western Front

A detailed Summary of All Quiet On The Western Front

War may seem not at all that hard to some people, you go to army training learn to shoot a gun dress up in your military outfit fly off to some country and shoot guys. What is so hard about that, and if you get hit your dead in a flash, correct? Well actually according to the events mentioned in 'All Quiet on the Western Front', it has much more than just going out and killing people and being done yourself in the end. War just isn't bad physically but also emotionally and you usually concentrate on it so much you miss out on an entire generation of family life. Also you miss out on the many good things of life, for you are trying to get rid of the bad things to make things good when really you are making things worse. Fighting for freedom might result in having freedom but also results in many people maybe being killed, which is wrong also. From 'All Quiet on the Western Front', collected is various descriptions of the war life:

"The crash of the shells bursts in my ears. If our fellows make a counter-raid I will be saved. I press my head against the earth and listen to the muffled thunder, like the explosions of quarrying-and raise it again to listen for the sounds on top."

Now, changing and growing apart can also be a theme, for when you're in the war you do change and grow apart from everything and everyone else. You meet person after person and develop a relationship, but it doesn't last very long. For example from the book, Paul Baumer, was 'friends' with a guy nicknamed Kat. They seemed like such good friends and pals all the time that was written about them, but in the end they weren't really friends. They completely lost touch and that was that. When one of them died it never said the other one was there to comfort his family, or whatever had happened, except in one and only one situation. When Paul was home on his leave he did make a stop to tell one of the other recruit's parents that their son had died. It was really good I think for him to go and talk to them about it, because usually if your in the military or especially back in those days you never really get a chance to do much of that and again end up missing out on a whole generation.

Misadventure is the last theme that was thought of, the whole story relates around war, war, and even more war. War is nothing but a big misadventure and all the recruits from the army are missing out on real life, which just might be fun, but instead they chose to have misadventure. There is never anything good about war, because in the end there are dead people from the defendant's side, and the other side, and it really does matter. In the end the two armies, winners or losers, don't seem to care about the hurt people on their army, or the well, or even the dead. They just forget and move on with life. Everyone only seems to care for themselves and usually don't risk their own lives for someone else's either. This also gets us back to the friends part, friends are supposed to care about each other, that is what mainly makes them friends, because they care. In the war no one seems to care at all though, which you would think makes the other people depressed or mad, but it doesn't. They only care about themselves, and no one cares what anyone else thinks or does, of course as long as it's not bad and will result in trouble for everyone else.

Now, the themes of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' I believe are, a lost of generation, change and growing apart, fortune, and misadventure.

The quotes also show a lot of the recruits being lost and confused and in a daze all the time. This could be because they are missing something, something so important but they don't really realize it. They are lost and dazed because they are missing life. We weren't put on

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Approximate Word count = 1721
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English